WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - North Korea has restored part of a missile launch site it began to dismantle after pledging to do so in a first summit with U.S. President Donald Trump last year, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency and two U.S. think tanks reported on Tuesday. The Center for Strategic and International Studies released a report, also citing satellite imagery, that concluded North Korea is “pursuing a rapid rebuilding” at the site. Trump did not identify the site, but a U.S. official subsequently told Reuters it was the Sohae Satellite LaunchingGround, which is located at Tongchang-ri. However, subsequent images indicated North Korea had halted work to dismantle the missile engine test site in the first part of August. Palladino said U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun, who led pre-summit negotiation efforts, planned to meet his South Korean and Japanese counterparts on Wednesday.

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